Submitted by Stiven_Crysis t3_119uxtt in technology
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herrsharky1 t1_j9o6l47 wrote
So it's texting with extra steps?
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Drunkmonkey29 t1_j9o746h wrote
I'm already there. Marketing and online bots have made it this way. AI is not the biggest problem it's the ppl that run it.
Slaiden_IV t1_j9o7wgc wrote
Umm... Can you not do that actually wtf.
News___Feed t1_j9o8bxr wrote
If regulators weren't all geriatric, power hungry morons who don't understand technology, we'd have sensible and cautious legislation around this shit already. But no, corporations get to run at full speed into technologies that will fundamentally reshape society will no knowledge of how and no responsibility for the consequences but plenty of opportunity to make money before the damage starts showing.
Fuck I hate this world sometimes.
Huegod t1_j9o8f0p wrote
Going back to rotory dial WHOSE WITH ME!
passinghere t1_j9o8p57 wrote
Bixby was the first thing I removed / disabled on my phone, fucking hate that crap constantly getting in the way, last thing needed is it doing even more
passinghere t1_j9obi0b wrote
> Imitating someone's voice is always going to raise fears about possible scams or other crimes should someone steal the phone and gain access to it, but Samsung notes that the feature does inform callers that there are speaking to Bixby and not the person they rang.
Only until it gets hacked and this warning gets removed
plasticbots t1_j9occii wrote
fuck everything about this
DatabaseMuch6381 t1_j9ochn2 wrote
Bixby is such shit
SuperToxin t1_j9ocqzb wrote
No?
7HawksAnd t1_j9od25v wrote
Technology is getting into firearm regulation/license territory and I can’t believe I’m saying that sincerely.
evilsbane50 t1_j9ogav0 wrote
I like Samsung phones and most of their products, but Bixby is the first shit that goes. It's slow and bad at Everything it's supposed to do and gets in the way 9 times out of 10.
RandomComputerFellow t1_j9oj6gy wrote
I think this will lift identity theft onto a next level. When your phone is hacked. Hacker not only have your contacts, your conversations, access to your email inbox, your SMS inbox, your scanned documents, your password manager, your online banking, your payment information, your private photos but also your voice to say whatever they want.
asdaaaaaaaa t1_j9okglg wrote
When was the last time you used your actual voice to verify something? I don't know a single institution (bank, government, etc) that would even notice or say anything if I "changed" my voice.
diggydillons t1_j9ol9e2 wrote
Next step, terminator
catfurcoat t1_j9olo98 wrote
There are two reasons I went from Samsung to pixel and will never go back: 1) Google call screening 2) no bixby
Hilppari t1_j9om01d wrote
Finally someone can take those annoying sales calls i usually ignore. Would be fun if the AI took them for a spin and wasted their time.
grektyu t1_j9om0p3 wrote
In 2002 New Jersey passed a law that said that once a any smart gun was available for sale, you could only buy smart guns in the state. And that’s probably the biggest reason we don’t have any guns with electronic safety features today.
RandomComputerFellow t1_j9om0z8 wrote
Well, I don't speak about my bank. I speak about stuff like calling my grandmother pretending that I have problems and desperately need to raise a huge amount of money or calling my secretary to ask her to make a quick wire transfer to a company in Russia because we just made a business deal with them.
In a country where Indian call centers can steal billions of dollars from people by pretending to be the IRS or Microsoft Support and you need to send them Google Play Gift cards to pay your taxes, do you really doubt people would fall for this?
passinghere t1_j9om2r0 wrote
Thankfully on my older Samsung A40, Bixby can be (and has been) completely disabled with a single tick box
OHMG69420 t1_j9omjhe wrote
Well I would love an AI that clones my voice that I can switch on when scammers call. Endless fun!
prophetmuhammad t1_j9ommqs wrote
and just like every software or feature that samsung implements, it will fall flat on its face. it would benefit them greatly to fix their work culture first, if they want any new releases to work out
BillyMeier42 t1_j9oojez wrote
I stopped answering my phone a little over a year ago unless I know the number or expecting a call. Otherwise i dismiss and see if they leave a message. I answer maybe 1 of every 10 calls.
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trancepx t1_j9opolr wrote
Lol, you first
thepottsy t1_j9optb5 wrote
I no longer have a Samsung phone, but god damn I hated that Bixby app.
Rook22Ti t1_j9oqsme wrote
Fuck, I don't even like Google smart replies.
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infinite884 t1_j9orcfl wrote
Screw Bixby
sllewgh t1_j9osweg wrote
Nah, fuck that. If I don't want to answer your call, I want you to know it. You're not getting my voice.
UsecMyNuts t1_j9otnx3 wrote
Samsung Bixby will clone a user's voice to answer phone calls send to China where your voice will be used on the new Xiaomi KillBot 7’s
ElGuano t1_j9ou9s8 wrote
Great, so now Bixby's failures can be pinned on me.
isticist t1_j9ovhfy wrote
- no 30+gb of Samsung bloatware.
Wild-Physics7753 t1_j9ovn19 wrote
wasn't Bixby dead?
LoveThieves t1_j9ow616 wrote
I need one that uses my voice and acts as a bot to mess with spam callers so they block me and don't call me.
GetRightNYC t1_j9oy8ar wrote
I went from Pixel to S22. Damn I miss the call screening.
I must have disabled Bixby when I setup my phonw though, as I've never seen anything from it.
Eric_the_Barbarian t1_j9oyhne wrote
Holy shit, why would you even want it to sound like you in the first place though?
GetRightNYC t1_j9oyqlj wrote
It'll just get you put on more call lists.
Weegemonster5000 t1_j9oyqxd wrote
I fucking wish. It's on my S22+ I just got.
Even worse, it's on the POWER BUTTON! You can't turn off your phone with the POWER BUTTON! You need press and hold power and volume down. Fucking ridiculous.
I don't know anyone that uses Bixby or anyone who is even just "meh" about it. Everyone hates Bixby.
TheAmateurletariat t1_j9ozzmg wrote
Scammers: "Would you sign up for this 'service' for a large annual fee?"
AI, with your voice, without your knowledge: "Yes."
Scammers: "Great, I'll just use that sound-bite to justify billing you for anything I want now."
jmsprintz t1_j9p09gy wrote
Oh fuck no it will not.
g-nice4liief t1_j9p09tu wrote
That's what bixby text call is for.
Biff_Malibu_69 t1_j9p3cnv wrote
Not on mine. That shit's disabled.
Chamilton1337 t1_j9p55io wrote
For my bank in Canada I activated the voice recognition option
topfraggior t1_j9p6fr9 wrote
Just rebind the power button
vorpalbunneh t1_j9p8h2w wrote
Right? The option is right there is settings to have it display the power menu.
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hecklingfext t1_j9pddck wrote
What was that movie where you could get an android of your best friend who died? We’re not far off are we?
Edit: Replicas (2018)
catfurcoat t1_j9pgn7q wrote
I need one that does that except it sounds like drunk Sean Connery
Agent17146 t1_j9phzgz wrote
Bixby is still a thing??
jepvr t1_j9pl5uh wrote
I love that the excuse is that it informs the person that this isn't the person it's imitating and is actually a computer. Then... why even imitate the voice? You're making it worse than just saying "______ isn't able to answer, but this is her assistant Bixby and" etc. That gives you the same functionality but is so much less of a WTF.
jepvr t1_j9plcd3 wrote
I'm bad at typing, so I use speech recognition to compose the text.
trancepx t1_j9plpzh wrote
Thank you for saying what needed to be said, now ordering 1000 copies of paul blart mall cop.
g-nice4liief t1_j9po4bg wrote
That's a pretty awsome way to communicate. Another + is you could control your phone even though for example your touchscreen is broken. That gives your phone a extra "life" if you can control your phone with your voice.
g-nice4liief t1_j9poe5a wrote
I don't honestly get the backlash. Nowhere it says it's MANDATORY to use your own voice. Why not use a celebrities voice, or your favorite character ? Wouldn't be aswome to have Morgen Freeman as a personal "ai" assistant ?
jepvr t1_j9ptrkc wrote
It was a joke based on not speaking to people.
darkkite t1_j9pzm52 wrote
fidelity offers this as well as other banks. never used it but it exists
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MrMidnightsclaw t1_j9q2a5f wrote
Fuck off Bixby
SomewhereGrand5507 t1_j9q5geg wrote
Finally a reason to enable bixby
[deleted] t1_j9q65t6 wrote
I'll wait for Google to do the same, fuck Bixby. Little shit adbot.
Bixby routines (OS automation disconnected from the assistant) are great tho.
g-nice4liief t1_j9qa6j9 wrote
Don't underestimate how lazy or stupid people can be.
jepvr t1_j9qfjl8 wrote
Don't worry, the internet keeps providing me with daily evidence.
g-nice4liief t1_j9qksin wrote
Lol good one and the same for me lol
nicuramar t1_j9qqdy0 wrote
You want regulation against a voluntary feature? Why?
mailslot t1_j9qrjgs wrote
Some scammers call simply to record people saying “yes?” Help with scamming to have other people’s voices.
WreckitWrecksy t1_j9qsa2k wrote
What could go wrong?
mailslot t1_j9qsb6d wrote
When I had Samsung phones, I remember how painful it was to disable all of the Samsung BS. No, I do not want Samsung Internet. No, I don’t want Samsung Mail. No, I sure don’t fucking want Bixby. It’s what I imagine if Siri and Alexa had a mentally handicapped child together.
Wuzzy_Gee t1_j9qw27w wrote
Really bad idea.
livelikemartis t1_j9r206a wrote
Ohh so I’m done with Samsung products.
epic_null t1_j9r2ly0 wrote
I think I was calling about my retirement fund when I was enrolled and had to explicitly be removed from it
foulpudding t1_j9r5nud wrote
This is not something anyone should be comfortable with.
9-11GaveMe5G t1_j9r5y5c wrote
> 1) Google call screening
Behind camera performance, this is my top pixel must have. Screens spam. Screens hidden numbers. Even screens numbers you've never talked to before, which really pays off with all the spoofed number scam calls.
catfurcoat t1_j9r65hg wrote
Everyone I know gets at least one call per day. I get MAYBE one per month that slips through.
MonteryWhiteNoise t1_j9rdg7f wrote
And, what measurable difference do you perceive with the Google page instead?
BrandoCalrissian1995 t1_j9re2r6 wrote
Yup best way is to let them ring. Sending them to voice-mail or answering tells them it's still an active line. After a few weeks of letting the spam calls go through I barely get them anymore.
BrandoCalrissian1995 t1_j9re7ok wrote
People just wanna complain. They don't want solutions.
this_1_is_mine t1_j9ryvy8 wrote
I don't believe in actually being able to disable it and also having to have an active subscription to Samsung in order to do so......
MonkeyAlpha t1_j9rza3g wrote
This will be abused for identity theft/fraud.
someRandomGeek98 t1_j9s4263 wrote
There's a black mirror episode that's similar to what you described too
ConfusedConnect t1_j9s8d0q wrote
Bixby angers me
passinghere t1_j9s8iwv wrote
What on earth are you on about. I have no subscription to samsung and it's completely disabled on my phone so I fail to understand this "claim" you are making
SoCloseButNot t1_j9sgso5 wrote
Or, maybe here's a Bixby feature that justifies using it.
passinghere t1_j9sheyz wrote
Guess this shows how sad my life is as without any call screening at all, I don't get any scam / spam / unwanted calls, hell I hardly even get any calls / texts at all. If my phone rings once a month it's unusual and 99% of my texts are automated credit card notifications regards the monthly amount about to be taken from my bank, or notifications from the chemist regards my meds
stupidcasey t1_j9shl84 wrote
Well someones got to compete with google since siri is shit.
hecklingfext t1_j9si26t wrote
That’s probably what I was thinking of
franstoobnsf t1_j9smptp wrote
Let's pretend people actually liked Bixby, fucking... then what? It answers the call you don't want and then goes "oh hey, soo uh.... bye"? Couldn't you just... not answer the phone? Who the hell is funding this? There are an actual team of people on this thing they know no one wants? People wake up everyday and go to this job?
News___Feed t1_j9sputf wrote
Because people ate tide pods for likes on Facebook.
this_1_is_mine t1_j9t8bcs wrote
My s9 will not let me reassign or even use the button. So it has been a forever attempted to avoid button because anytime you bump it it immediately pulls up Bixby and tells you I have to log into a Samsung account. And the behavior is changeable inside of the Samsung app which requires you to be logged in to do anything in.
CalebM123456 t1_j9taiaf wrote
My system takes up over 60 Gbs
luca1405 t1_j9tfbf8 wrote
There is a similar function on Samsung phones. I have it on my S22
catfurcoat t1_j9ttphr wrote
Your phone provider might be providing spam blocking services instead
catfurcoat t1_j9tttyq wrote
Siri IS garbage! I will say that Alexa is better than Google home speakers though
sickonmyface t1_j9u6ozi wrote
Made the herd stronger though.
ItsASadBunny1 t1_j9x23o0 wrote
Yea, any chance they get to complain about Samsung they always do. Super easy to customize, you can download a goodlock module to take the button customization even further. Can't do that on an iPhone or a Pixel.
halibutdinner t1_ja4ldwd wrote
Not a big deal.
Zumbert t1_j9o5zq1 wrote
We are at the beginning of the end folks. AI is about to make it so everything you see, hear or read will be suspect.